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G. E. WARREN MANUFACTURE 0F SHOES Filed Jan. 12, 1922 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Nov. 15, i927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. WARREN, Oi? SWATPSCOTT, TASSACH'USETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 "UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OE'

NEW JERSEY.

SON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF IEANUFCEURE OF SHOES.

Application filed January 12, 1922.

This invention relates to shoes and methods of making' them, being concerned more especially with the heel-portions and finding an application of great utility in connection with the attachment of rubber lifts, or half heels, upon heel-bases secured to the heel seat-portions of shoes. The usual manner of connecting' the elements of this portion of a shoe is first, after lasting;r the upper over the insole and attaching thereto the outsole at the fore-part, to secure the heel-seat by driving in succession with a loose nai'ler a series of nails about the edge oit' this portion, through the outsole, the lasted-over upper, the flange of the inserted counter and the in sole. Then the heel-base is nailed upon a heeline machine through the outsole and insole at points between the edges ol the upper and counter. Finally, by another heeling; machine, or atleast by an independent operation, the ruhber lift is :fixed in place by nails driven into the base. Thus it will be seen that three distinct operations are performed in securing' the heel and heel-seatelements. An object of my invention is to simplify such a procedure as just outlined. and to produce a shoe, at the heel-portion of which fewer fastening's are used, without sacrilicine` strength or impairing the appearance of the product. This l accomplish by simultaneously securing the heel base to the heel-seat-portien and the elements of the upper at said heel-seat to one another, as by driving a line of fastening's which will connect. through a single operation, these portions of a shoe. This having` been done, a top-lift, as of rubber, is tired in place upon the base by a single additional operation. as by driving fastenings through the litt into the base. lf desired. these fastenings may he of such a character and so applied that they will enter the hee'l-scat-portion of the shoe and add to the strength with which the elements are held together. At the same time, means may be produced to locate another shoe-portion. as by forming;` projections upon the outer surface of the base, preferably hy driving nails to project beyond said surface, these projections being arranged to enter depressions in the applied lift. Since this locating' means bears a predetermined relation to the shoe and independent ot the position o l? the base, the applied li ft similarly is definitely located, re-

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gardless of irregularities in the periphery of the base or the angle at which it is applied.

A machine by which my improved method may be carried out and the heel-portion of a shoe resultingtherefrom are illustrated in the accompanying' drawing, in which F l shows in front elevation a heeling machine arranged for the performance of the present method;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the heelportion of a shoe prior to the securing;` of the heel-seat, and with a heel or heel-base associated therewith in preparation for attachment;

Fig'. 3 is a similar view, the parts in see tion, after the nailingl of the hase and heelseat;

Fie. l. illustrates in a like manner the completed heel with a rubber lift attached;

Finne shows similarly another application of my invention;

Fig. (i is a perspective view of the heelportion ot my improved shoe provided with litt-'locating means, the lift being` separated from the base; I

Fire'. 'i' is a like view of a completed heel embodying the feature o'l Fig. 6; and

Fig'. 8 illust ates another form of the lift locating arrangement.

At l0, in Fig. 2, appears the heel-seat and counterportion of a shoe-upper, having within it a counter l2 and carrying' an insole 14 and an outsole 16, the upper and the ovcrhanaingl flange of the counter being secured to the insole in lastingl by tacks 1S. The heel-element 2() is here shown as a base, which is to bear an additional outer lift, as is indicated in. Fig. il. For the attachment of the heel. the workman may mount the shoe carried b v its last Q2 upon the jack 2l of any suitable heeling machine. that illustrated in Fig'. l beingA the well-known rLightuingl heeler. ln this, the jack is movably mounted upon a frame fili, beineV arranged lo press the work l' a cam mechanism (not shown) against the die-block lixcd in horizontal position. upon the frame. Above the diebloclc reciprocates the top girt carryingr drivers 32. arranged to Contact with and force into a heel presented to them nails contained in openings l-l in the die-block. A holder Btl is mounted to oscillate beneath the die-block across the openings f-lll, this having clamps to retain for successive presu bil outsole to the heel portion of the lasted shoe by a single group o't' tastenings.

Qi. rlhat method otl making shoes which consists in attaching the forepart ot an outsole to a lasted shoe, applying a heel base to the unattached heel end of the outsole in proper position relative to the counter poi'- tion ot the shoe, securing both the heel base and the unattached heel end of the outsole to the heel portion ot the lasted shoe by a single. group of tastenings, and completing the heel by attaching a rubber' lift by another group ot astenings.

3. The method of making shoes, which consists in applying a heel-base to the heelseat-portion ot' a shoe, driving a line of tastenings about the base to simultaneously secure it. to the heel-seat and the elements of said heel-seat to one another, applying a resilient litt to the thus-secured base, and driving astenings through said lift, base and heel-seat.

el. The method of making shoes, Which consists in applying ak heel-base to. the heelseat--portion of a shoe carrying an insole and outsole and including a counter. driving fastenings through the base, outsole, upper material. counter and insole, applying a rubber litt to the base, and driving tastenings through the lift into the heel-seat.

5. The method of making shoes, which consists in simultaneously securing a portion ot a shoe thereto and producing locating means on said portion, and associating with the shoe an element thereof formed with means to engage the locating means.

6. The method ot making shoes, which consists in simultaneously securing a heelportion to a shoe and producing locating means, and associating with the shoe a. heelportion formed with means to engage the locating means.

7. The method of making shoes, which consists in securing aI heel-base to a. shoe, producing upon such Secured base locating means ior a heel-litt, said locating means bearing a definite relation to the shoe. and applvmg a lift to the base in a position determined by the locating means.

S. The method ot' making shoes. which consists in securing a heel-base to a shoe, and producing upon such base locating means tor a heel-litt, said locating` means bearing a predetermined relation to the hee-lseat oiu the shoe independent-ly ot' the position ot the base thereon.

9. The method of making shoes, which consists in securing a heel-base to a shoe,

simultaneously producing upon such base locating means for a heel-litt, said locating means bearing a definite relation to the heelseat of the shoe independently of the position of the base thereon, and bringing into registration With the locating means upon the base locating means upon a litt.

l0: The method of making shoes, which consists in simultaneously securing a heelbase upon a shoe and producing upon the base locating projections, and applying t0 the base a litt having openings to receive the projections.

1l. A shoe comprising an upper, a sole associated therewith, a heel-base contacting with t-lie heel-seat, tastenings extending through the base and heel-seat, a resilient lift carried by the base, and tastenings ex'- tending through the lift and base through the heel-seat elements.

l2. A shoe comprising an upper, a counter, an insole and an outsole, a heel-base contacting with the outsole at the heel-seat, nails extending through the base, outsole; upper material, counter and insole, a rubber lift carried by the base, and nails extending through the lift into the lieel-seat.

13. A shoe comprising a heelbase having litt-locating means bearing a predetermined relation to the heel-seat of the shoe, and a lift provided with means 'for co-operatioii with the locating means.

14. A shoe comprising a heel-base having a plurality of lift-locating projections bearing a predetermined relation to the heel-seat of the shoe independently of the position of the base thereon, and a lift provided with depressions to receive the projections.

15. A shoe comprising a heel-base, an outer group of nails securing the base to the shoe near the periphery of said base. an inner group of locating nails projecting bevond the outer surface ot the base, a lift having openings to receive the locating nails, and an intermediate group of nails securing the liftto the base.

16. The method ot making shoes which consists in applying a. heel-base to the heelseat-portion of the upper of a shoe, simultaneously securing t-he heel-base to the heelseat, the elements of said heel-seat to one another and producing locating means upon the heel-base, and associating with the heel an element provided with means to engage the locating means.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

GEORGE E. lVARREN.

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